There was no Green Revolution
The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa was presented as a game-changer to address hunger. The consensus 15 years later: It failed.
The Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa was presented as a game-changer to address hunger. The consensus 15 years later: It failed.
Mozambique should not move forward with extractivist mega-projects. They always contribute to serious violations of human rights, cause irreversible damage to the environment, and deepen the climate crisis.
On the back of a failed COP26 climate conference: how e-waste dumping by European countries in Africa contribute significantly to climate change.
Let’s talk about the role Western institutions can play in achieving climate justice in the Sahel.
A new documentary focuses on using the soil’s carbon absorbent properties to solve the climate change problem.
Philanthrocapitalists are driving massively profitable schemes dressed up as eco-friendly, pro-poor solutions to climate disaster.
Local biodiversity loss and degradation of resources will have the greatest effect on communities in regions of biofuel expansion.
A key part of Maathai's work was how she creatively engaged with religious traditions, including Christianity and the Bible. Admittedly, her stance was somewhat complex.
No amount of clean technology, industrial growth or boosts to GDP will avert the economic and climate crises inextricable to profit-driven extraction.
Climate activists and leftists should tread cautiously when they use the climate argument to support fossil fuel subsidy reform in Africa.
As countries expand investment in decentralized renewable energy, its worth keeping an eye on who's profiting.
Any talk about green transition and sustainability must not become a façade for neocolonial schemes of plunder and domination.
Communities that live and work in African woodlands must become central to conservation efforts.
How an environmental catastrophe catalyzed major anti-government mobilizations in Mauritius.
No sul de Angola, para além do infindável ciclo de seca, a crise humanitária cresce por causa de razões não climatológicas.
In southern Angola, a preventable humanitarian crisis deepens. The government bears much of the responsibility.
Africa should demand a politics where carbon removal targets and techniques are set by community decisions rather than by market forces.
In this, the first of a series of posts, we critically look at the implications of climate policy in the most powerful Western country for Africans.
How climate change is threatening lives in Kenya.
The new documentary on the future of our planet, executive produced by Michael Moore, fails on a number of fronts. But believers in green growth could still learn from it.